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AUNT SALLY, an English game popular at fairs, race courses and summer resorts. It consists in throwing wooden or leather-covered balls at grotesquely dressed puppets, generally a female figure called "Aunt Sally," with the object of smashing a clay pipe, inserted either in the mouth or forehead of the puppet.

In France the game is known as

jeu de massacre.